This is it exactly: "Partying with a guy who is obviously into nubile girls may not be a crime, but it’s morally repugnant and makes you unfit to hold positions of trust or high social status." If judgement is lax regarding interactions with a convicted sex offender, it's likely lax in other areas

GUIDANCE ON WHAT TO DO IF YOU SEE A FIRE AT YOUR INSTITUTION 1) Form a fire committee 2) establish terms of reference and appoint a chair 3) invite fire to join as a stakeholder 4) discuss next steps with internal comms

Oh hey since people who actually know Latin are watching, would you be willing to check my research on this one? My explanatory note says: Virgil (70-19 BCE) was a Roman poet. Trumbull gives a partial version of his distich (a two-line stanza of a poem)

When I started this transcription project I did not expect these people to toss so much Latin around so casually.

"you don’t defeat authoritarians by being more reasonable. You defeat them by being more determined and by uniting the country against their most visible vulnerability: their corruption. History won’t judge Democrats on whether they were moderate enough. It will judge them on whether they fought"

JFC ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE ALREADY REQUIRED. OH MY GOD. YOU ARE BEGGING FOR THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY REQUIRED BY LAW. GEE I WONDER HOW NATIONAL DEMS COMPLETELY LOST THE RHETORICAL BATTLE ON IMMIGRATION. IF ONLY THERE WERE ANY RECENT EXAMPLES OF THEM JUST ACCEPTING GOP FRAMING AND TALKING POINTS.

"The People of Boston have great Merit for their firmness & zeal in the cause of Liberty, it is only to be wished it might never be disgraced, by any Ill Judged Tumults & Violences, which forge the keenest Weapons for our Adversaries ..." - William Samuel Johnson, Sept. 29, 1768

"Bare, naked power is an awful thing, and very unamiable to a people that have been used to be free." - Governor William Pitkin, June 6, 1768

"Unhappy state of man! where opulence & power conspire to load the poor, the defenceless, & the innocent with accumulated misery!—where an unworthy few (1/2)

I already made my order for Jan/Feb - good tea is not cheap. But you, too, can order tea from these folks and have it shipped across the country! My big order is Double Cream Earl Grey. And they also send little sample bags with your actual order, it's good random fun and discovery!

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Medieval Literature 2. Symbolic Logic 3. Greek Mythology 4. History of Rome 5. Some English class where I wrote a research paper on Doris Lessing

“It doesn’t matter what patch they’re wearing… You have to pull them aside, whether verbally or physically. You’re helping them, you’re saving them from doing something potentially tragic. So that’s a good statute.” - CT Police trainer Ryan Fazio voted against this. ctmirror.org/2026/01/30/c...

Mean Mr. Mustard

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent.” – Common Sense (1776) 250 years later, Thomas Paine’s words still resonate. Explore the pamphlet that lit the fire of independence: 🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/431 #ThomasPaine #CommonSense #Revolution250

Next week's The New Yorker cover

Where's the line for punching ArchiveGrid in the face?

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This morning’s packed-like-sardines Red Line commute had one benefit: I got to look over the shoulder of a tech guy (profiling via outerwear and the fact he got off at Kendall) as he wrote to a friend: “Planes to The Hague should be the moderate position.”

This video man …

Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

"The government has also argued that I must accept this as true because they said it, and they are the government."

1/3 If lawful carry serves as a justification for lethal force, then we don't actually have a right to carry. A right that can be used as a retroactive justification for killing a person exercising it is not a right in any meaningful sense. You could build a broad coalition on that.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Bad morality, bad legality, bad theology. It's that last one that has my brain skipping like a scratched record, though.

they're rad! what a dumb thing to get upset about. oh boohooooooo somebody wanted to be my neighbor. i'm crying because my neighbor likes it here and wants to be here and that's why they worked hard to get here wahhhhhhh

:Glances up from skimming 19th century death records, in which infants regularly die of infections caused by teething:

Today in unusual 1872 death records: Richard W. Swan's death was partly attributed to "Wounds at Battle of Antietam" (along with consumption). Antietam was in 1862, by the way.

Today in opinionated 1872 death records: William Hickey died of "Whiskey."

Each of those things were *also* un-American. Not because they weren't done by Americans, and by America, but because they were always contradictory to what America creedally claimed to be: the land where all men were created equal and endowed with inalienable rights

*AGAIN.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Therefore, since the society refused to support him, it should be assessed to pay him." (About an 18th century salary dispute in Lyme, CT.)

"Nostalgia is not a strategy" should be tattooed on quite a few foreheads.

Thompson's piece is so good (with some allowances for it being written in 1941).

Retweeted for excellent A+ vocabulary. I think I need breakfast before I can cope with the pissant pedophile's lunacy in any more detail.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

It's just a Dagwood sandwich of stupid. (This is a subtweet of current US foreign policy.)

Wow, Bluesky survived the whole morning without my presence. Good job! Let's see how you do for the afternoon. 😉

PLEASE ARE THERE NOT TEN RIGHTEOUS SENATORS IN SODOM WHO CAN SHOW UP AND GRAB THE WHEEL HERE

Still not an acceptable source for your school papers, though!

This. Also, I will be there arranging tables in the gym at election time no matter what the Rump says.

It's true. It seems funny until you internalize the fact that 21 people died.

Unusual death record of the day comes from 1911. William Wilcox, Second Mate, died aboard the schooner Palma, 20 miles east of Block Island. Cause of death was "Fell in hole in vessel sustained internal injuries hip broken."

Quelle suprise.

Rep. Ritchie Torres introduces the "Infect Your Device With ICE Malware" bill to help federal government infect the phones of pro-democracy protesters.

In Minneapolis

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate